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ECONOMIST TO DISCUSS FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CHINA AT BARD COLLEGE TUESDAY, MARCH 1

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—On Tuesday, March 1, Luodan Xu, a professor of economics and vice president of Lingnan (University) College—one of China’s most prestigious business schools—will deliver a lecture at Bard College. Her lecture, “Foreign Direct Investment in China,” is free and open to the public and takes place at 8 p.m. at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. The talk is presented by the Levy Institute and Bard in China, with support from the Freeman Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative.
Since 1996, Xu has been a professor of economics and vice president of Lingnan (University) College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. She has been an associate professor and visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; an international fellow at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a researcher at the University of Leicester; and a member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth Guangdong Political Consultative Committee. Her work has been published in Management World, The Journal of World Economy, and China Business Review, among many other publications. She has a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Xiamen University in China and a Ph.D. in business economics from Lapland University in Finland.
For more information about the forum, please call 845-758-7388 or e-mail gould@bard.edu.